"Stockbridge is the best of America, the best of New England," is what Norman Rockwell had to say, and he should know. Anyway, his studio was there and his museum is there now so you can visit both, if you're into that kind of thing. And you will be.

Daniel Chester French (see my August 27 entry below) had railroad tracks installed in his studio so that he could wheel out his monumental sculptures and scrutinize them in full sunlight (mouseover the pic for a vintage example).